I’m mostly in the “fuck AI” camp. As is my eldest son. The other day I messaged him and said “I hate to say this, but I just had a helpful interaction with AI.”

Python has importlib. I’ve used it many times, particularly when laying DB libraries conditionally.

I was in a situation where I needed to load arbitrary python code from an arbitrary location. I was sure I could use importlib to do this, but couldn’t sort it out. Nine of my search results turned to anything that moved me in the right direction. Finally I asked copilot. Not only did it get me where I needed to go but when I told it “I got this error when doing this thing.” It told me I was a moron and why.

Needless to say I got my weird problem sorted.

AI still sucks though.

Is there any reason why this needs to be a taxpayer subsidized organization?

I realize it’s not quite the same thing, but there are already corporations who pay private meteorologists for their services.

World or not be better to allow corporate America to pay for these types of services and free up those dollars for other things?

Well that’s the end of me ever doing anything productive for the rest of my life.

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Today is my wife’s birthday, when she opened her gift it was a reMarkable Pro. So far we’re both impressed.

Fully agreed very heavy.

Love love love these books.

Any early Alistair MacLean…

Guns of Navaronne

Where Eagles Dare

When Eight Bells Toll

Night Without End

Puppet on a String

Louis Lamour’s westerns are complete popcorn and fun to read

C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower books

I’m impressed you were able to convert the Oreos! 😉

6’6" (247.5 Oreo Cookies for those of you who use that measurement). My wife is 5’1" tall.

When I was growing up my mom would always say “the tall girls are going to love you!” Every tall girl I ever asked out shot me down in flames.

I’m a fan of capitalism, but not the kind of capitalism that decrees something is too big to fail and must be bailed out.

Gilligan’s island

I dream of Jeannie

Perry Mason

That would have been a giveaway.

I’ll take that as a compliment! I’ve had the same job since December 2001. My first marriage lasted over 20 years. My second is at 12 already. Three sons, one daughter, a wife who’s a career soldier, means we move a lot.

This has been a ton of fun. Thank you for taking the time to do it. I was very careful in my answers, hoping not to give too much away. I think I was mostly successful.

I’m pretty impressed at the 49 number though!

You’re actually 12 years too young. I just celebrated birthday 61.

We met in 2011

Wow, another interesting question. There are so many. I think the night I meet my wife at the instigation of some friends would be one of those. My life certainly changed significantly then.

Oh I’m working on it. I fiddle around in the shop, learning some really basic skills but getting there.

Oh man, what a question. I really want to change careers. I want to learn to make furniture. It feels more “lasting” than writing code. So yeah, I have more to do.

Yellowstone is fantastic! I’m loving it

Right now I am playing a lot of Balatro, some Satisfactory, some BG3, some No Mans Sky. Minecraft is also regularly in rotation.